# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1859_S153
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Chiliasm. 153

our preachers, long since abandoned, although a few of the older German teachers and members of the congregation still hold it. As to the manner and meaning of the presence of the Lord in the Supper, freedom is allowed, as in the evangelical Church of Germany. The majority of our preachers believe in a special presence and a special blessing of the Lord, but only of a spiritual kind. Baptism admits the subject into the visible Church of God; it also assures the child the forgiveness of sin, but the adult only if he is truly penitent and exercises living faith in Christ. — The Columbus Seminary, in whose administration some recently arrived theologians gained the upper hand and wished to make it almost exclusively German and Old Lutheran, was soon abandoned by the Americans and is now suspended."

This declaration was signed as follows:

"Dr. S. S. Schmucker, Professor of Theology at the Seminary of the General Synod of the Lutheran Church at Gettysburg, Penn.
Dr. B. Kurtz, Editor of the Lutheran Observer at Baltimore, Md.
Dr. H. N. Pohlmann, Pastor of the Lutheran Church at Albany, N. Y.
Dr. J. G. Morris, Pastor of the First Lutheran Church at Baltimore, Md.
Rev. H. J. Schmidt, Professor at the Seminary at Hartwig, in the State of New York."

The Rudelbach-Guericke Journal and the Erlangen Journal communicated this declaration in full in their 1846 volume, as testimony to the General Synod's falling away from Lutheran doctrine and practice and to its "deplorable" condition. This document has never been retracted!

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Chiliasm.

Berlin, Jan. 14. The "Evangelische Kirchliche Anzeiger" reports the following today: The enthusiast Israel Pick, who some years ago in Breslau converted from Judaism to Christianity and, after much wandering about and writing in the Rhine Province, formed the "Amen" congregation, so called after "Amen, the faithful and true witness," came to Jerusalem last summer and disappeared there. For the sect in question believes that it must emigrate to the mountains of Moab in order to escape the terrors of the present age. Israel Pick had stayed in Jerusalem for about six weeks, [having spoken] about his

*) Nevertheless the signers do give to understand that they are by no means Nativists. They write: "Although we are Americans, we are nonetheless sprung from German stock; German blood courses in our veins; we are proud of our German descent." Now, after the Know-Nothing movement, these gentlemen would no longer write so, or at least we have heard a quite different tune sung from the General Synod of more recent times.